The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
Genre
The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.
On a cold winter’s night, a young woman takes the bus home. The silence is suddenly broken by the voices of two boys bullying an old man. Frightened, the young woman has to face her own cowardice and tries to summon courage in order to put an end to this situation.
The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…
Clara is a self-demanding, perfectionist, nine-year-old girl. Despite her efforts and deprivations, especially from the temptations her friend Bea offers continuously, she gets a failing grade in Physical Education. She has embarked along a path of obsessions and self-deception that will lead her to fall into a bottomless pit. A journey through darkness on which she’ll lose everything and the people close to her, in particular her parents, full of doubt and questions, will be the beacon to show her the way out of the tunnel. Will she manage to do it?
R slowly turns 26 and freaks out: what if she never will be young and attractive again?
Dolly returns from Australia, and has ballooned to three times her skinny size! Soon, though, she falls under the roving eye of her best friend Bell’s boyfriend. All seems to go well but soon Bell realises that Dolly’s friend actually runs a magazine – “Fatties Plus” – and he only wants her for her weight.
Dolly and her family go on a TV game show, competing against Belle’s family. But few of the Ponds are actually interested, so she ends up having Nobby pose as her brother and Mrs. A as her grandmother. Complications ensue when her real grandmother shows up at the studio.
As Ivy starts to prepare for her annual Christmas extravaganza, Dolly decides to go through with the resolution she made last year — to be safely out of the country when it happens. But then she gets caught up in a gift-basket-buying frenzy started by Nobby and Mrs. A.
Hand-drawn Animation
Dolly bites off more than she can chew in this episode. She begins to watch a show called “pet savers, ” and ends up buying a horrific vampire hamster!
When Dolly realises the only way she’ll be able to date the guy of her dreams from the health shop is by giving up her smoking habit, she tries any method she can to curb her addiction.
Dolly returns from Australia, and has ballooned to three times her skinny size! Soon, though, she falls under the roving eye of her best friend Bell’s boyfriend. All seems to go well but soon Bell realises that Dolly’s friend actually runs a magazine – “Fatties Plus” – and he only wants her for her weight.
Konstantin is moving away from the wonderful empire of the plywood pirates. But how he can confess it his best friends Laurin and Digger?
Lou tells their story, the way they feel about gender. Girl or boy, he/she chose not to choose, for now.
Odd is an egg is the story of seven-year-old Odd who is so worried about crushing his head that his entire life has come to a standstill. Everyday life is coloured by fear of what might happen to him, on the way to school or in the schoolyard. To curb his worst anxiety, he upholsters his egghead for protection. One day he meets the bee girl Gunn. She is both fearless and happy in life. Through meeting Gunn, Odd’s life is turned upside down, and in a most unexpected way, he is freed from all worries.
It’s about Luna, a girl with super powers, but who’s not a superhero.
In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.
Even though Sam’s father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
A woman tries very hard to lose her virginity and always searches for “the one.”